Improvement in hot-air registers



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEroE.

DALEMBERT T. GALE, OF FORT WAYNE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOT-AIR REGISTERS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DALEMBERT. T. GALE, of Fort NVayne, in the county of Allen and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Device for Heating Rooms, Cars, 85o., by means of a Heating-Register. Y y

This invention consists in the construction of registers suitably arranged in the floor or otherwise in such a manner that heat may be gener# ated therein by the agency of gas or gasoline, or other suitable heating agent-preferably gasthereby obviating the expense of stoves or cellar-heaters, and the labor and4 care of res of coal or wood f'uel. This I accomplish by fitting in the iioor a metallic box of size adapted to the surface to be heated, similar to`those used in connection with cellar-heaters, With the difference that the heat is generated in the register direct by providing the register-box with pipes and burners. The register-box is also provided with a Water-reservoir, which protects damage from overheating, and supplies the air in the rooml with a desirable moisture. The burnerpipes may connect with pipes in the house, or they may have a separate retort; or, for heating cars, they may attach to the gasoline-retort, which would supply both light and heat. The pipes and burners are provided with cocks to regulate the volume of the heating agent. The register-box is also supplied with an air-pipe to supply air in combustion of the fuel. The burners are provided with a shield of metal or other suitable material. This shield receives the direct blaze, and it serves as a retainer. It also radiates and modifies the rankness of the heat. It also serves as an auxiliary in making a perfect combustion of the fuel. This shield may be made solid, tlat, or double, or concave-preferably concaveand forming a vacuum. It is made portable, and can be removed to inspect the burners, or, When necessary, for cooking purposes. The Water-reservoir may be cast stationary with the register-box, or separate, which is preferable. When thus 'arranged it warms a room ett'ectually and economically. It makes an even, pleasant heat, perfectly inodorous.

To enable othersskilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to explain more fully hoW I construct it.

Figure l is a view of the register-box with the top bearings removed, showing the pipes, burners Water-reservoir, and the shield. Fig. 2 is a view of the top or surface plate which covers the register-box, 4and is provided with openings to allow the heat to radiate. Fig. 3 is a view of the frame upon which the register-box rests, having a raised margin into which the top or surface plate rests.

In the construction of my invention I make a box of sheet-iron or any suitable material, with an open top, and with a margin for a rest. I then introduce the gas and air-pipes, burners, and Water-reservoir, as follows: Box a being adjusted, it is placed in the oor, and rests on the frame R, which is cast to t With margin o. The gas-pipes b and air-pipes d are placed through perforations made in one side of box a at a convenient point for attachment. I then attach burner f-any gas-burner--Which takes in With the gas a proper proportion of air to make a perfect combustion without smoke. I then place the reservoir lv, which may be of any shape or material desirable. I fill this reservoir with plain Water or limelwater in order to meisten the atmosphere in the room, and to make it odorless. It also protects the register from overheating. I then place my shield l overjthe burner f. This I form, in this case, of sheet metal, one side concave and double, so. as to make a vacuum, and I shape offsets thereon so as to allow the bottom surface of shield e to come Within about one inch of burner f. The air-pipe d may extend just to the outside surface of box a; or it may extend to the outside of the building, the object being to supply the burner and room with a continued supply of fresh air. The cocks p I place at any point requisite to regulate the how of the heating agent. The register being thus completed, I place the surface or top plate N, Which is of cast-iron, to fit with openings, as seen in Fig. 2. l then apply a taper to the burner, and the heat ovvs immediately.

This is a device long needed, especially for sick rooms, Where an evenv temperature of heat is de- 2. Register-box af, pipes b and d, cocks p,

burner f, reservoir k, shield I, and surface plate N, in the manner described, :md their adaptation for heating rooms, cams, &e., substantially as set forth.

DALEMBERT T. GALE.

Witnesses EDWIN T, GALE, EDWARD WESTERVELT. 

